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Chapter 3
Integrated Lean Assessment
This chapter offers an integrated Lean assessment program that compels
all forms of waste to become visible and obvious. This supports ISO 14001
and ISO 50001 directly and may, in fact, be the only approach that is neces-
sary to meet or exceed the analytical requirements of these standards. The
continuous improvement cycle of Isolate, Measure, Assess, Improve, and
Standardize (IMAIS) uses the recommended Lean key performance indica-
tors (KPIs) to identify waste proactively and then remove it.
All continuous improvement processes are variants of Plan, Do, Check,
Act (PDCA) or Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA). T ...